The circus Roger Ailes created at Fox News made his network $900 million last year. But it may have lost him something more important: the next election.

“Winning” in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

Louis C.K. has a deal unlike anyone else’s on TV: his network, FX, has no approval rights and offers no notes. He is also the show’s lone writer, editor, director, and star. A profile.

What becomes of Asian-American overachievers after the test-taking ends?

Justin Vivian Bond found downtown fame as Kiki DuRane, decrepit drag chanteuse and comedic prophet of gay rage born out of the AIDS era. Then he killed Kiki to try to become the woman (and man) he always wanted to be.

The social rituals of the pansexual, bi-queer, metroflexible New York teen.

A profile of Christopher Brosius, the “Willy Wonka of fragrances,” whose latest creation is designed to not be smelled.

The birth of the Beastie Boys—an oral history on the 25th anniversary of Licensed to Ill.

A profile of Carmelo Anthony, newly anointed savior of the New York Knicks.

On Ray Dalio, who built the world’s biggest hedge fund by running it like a cult.

On billionaire financier Lynn Tilton and her quest to become a public figure.

In 1991, Frank Sterling confessed to a crime he didn’t commit. His story highlights a common – and controversial – method of police interrogation.

The barbaric brutalization of Abner Louima and the tragic fate of a handful of flawed Brooklyn cops.

What a century and a half of piled-up housing reveals about New Yorkers.

A New Yorker finds an unlikely house guest on Craigslist.

On Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and their new Broadway musical about Mormons, which “may just be their highest artistic achievement yet.”

A crusading minister has built a forested Utopia for the itinerant and destitute. But is a social experiment what they’re looking for, or just a place to live?

“One evening, my home phone rang. ‘You have a collect call from Bernard Madoff, an inmate at a federal prison,’ a recording announced. And there he was.”

SNL in its grim twentieth season through the lens of first (and only) year cast-member Janeane Garofalo.

The father: an Oscar-winning songwriter. The son, a college dropout and partier around downtown New York. Their alleged crimes; serial casting-couch rape (the senior) and a drowning murder in a Soho House bathtub (the junior).

Cathie Black, former magazine executive, currently Bloomberg’s hand-picked Chancellor of New York City schools

The juvenile ward on Rikers Island is a world of constant violence fueled by gangs and, allegedly, encouraged and overseen by the guards.

On the group of friends who came to rule the bizarre, decreasingly lucrative world of Internet porn.

James Frey is starting a publishing company, paying young writers (very poorly) to reverse engineer a Twilight-esque hit.

Tony Kushner and the burdens of being one of the last public intellectuals in American theater.